Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-19

pressing the SOUL WHICH can Sallop OH
over musical keys or soar in jubilant
lay. 1t will cure pain. 1t will rest
fatigue. 1t will quell passion. 1t will re-
vive health. II will reclaim dissipation.
1t will strengthen the immortal soul. In
the battle Of Waterloo, Wellington saw
that the Highlanders were falling back
He said, What is the matter there?" He
was told that the band ofmusic had ceased
playing, and he called up the pipers and
ordered them to strike up an inspiritlpg
air; and no sooner did they strike the air
than the Highlanders were rallied, and
helped to win the day. Oh, We who have
been routed in the conflicts of life, try by
the force of music to rally your scattered
battalions.
am glad to know that in our great
cities there is hardly a night in which
there are not concerts, where with the best
musical instruments and the sweetest
voices. people may find entertainment
PATRONIZE SUCH ENTERTAINMENTS,
when they are afforded you. Buy season
tickets, if you can, for the "Philhar-
monic" and the Handel and Haydn" so
cieties. Feel that the dollar and half or
two dollars that you spend for the pur-
pose of hearing an artist play or sing is 4
profitable investment. Let your Stein
way Halls and your Academies Of Music
roar with the acrisrratiun of apprccistive
audiences assembled at the concert or the
oratorio.
Still further: commend, rs worthy
Of their support, tie gymnasium. This in
| Qtt tt 10 aif,tn ~,
and ! know of nothing more free from dis
s!pat;On, or more calculated TO recuperate
the mental and physical energies. While
there are q good many people who have
employed this institution, there is vast
number who are ignorant Of its eXCellences.
There are men with cramped chests and
weak sides and despondent spirits who
through the gymnasium might be reused
up to exuberance and exhilaration Of life.
There are many Christian people despond-
ent from year to year, who might, through
such an institution, I've benefited III
their spiritual relations. There are Chris
tiam people who seem to think that it il q
good sign 10 he poorly; and because Rich
ard Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids
they think that by the same sickliness
they may come TO the same grandeur of
character. | want to tell the Christian
peopi" Of my congregation that God will
hold you responsible for your inyalidism if
it is your fault, and when through right
exercise and prudence you might I've ath
letic and we'll. The eject of the body
upon the soul you acknowledge. But
man of mild disposition upOn the animal
diet of which the Indian partakes, and in
little while his blood will change it's
chemical proportions. 1t will becOIle like
| unto the blood of the lion or the tiger or
the bear, while his disposition will change
and become fierce, cruel and unrelenting.
The body has q powerful effect upon the
soul.
FALSE IDEAS OF HEAVEN.
There are good people whose ideas OF
heaven are all shut ont with clouds of
tObacc0-smOke. There are people who
dare to shatter the physical vase in which
God has pu; the jewel of eternity There
are men with great hearts and intellects in
bodies worn out by their own neglects
magnificent machinery capable of propel-
ling Great Eastern across the Atlantic,
yet fastened in riCkety North River pro-
peller. Martin Luther was so mighty for
Cod, first, because he hal Doble soul,
and secondly, because he had a muscular
development which would have enabled
him to thrash any five of his prosecutors,
il il had been Christian ~ 10 do. Physical
development which merely shows Itself in
fabulous lifting, or in perilous rope walk
ing, or in pugilistic encounter, excitcs
only our contempt; hut we confess 10 great
admiration for the man who has 4 great
soul in an athletic body, every nerve,
muscle, and bone of which is
cnnsecrated to right uses. Oh,
it seems to me outrageous that
men, through neglect, should allow their
physical health to 20 down beyond repair.
A ship which ought, with all sail pet and
every man at his post, to be carrying a
rich cargo for eternity, employing all its
men in stopping up leakages. When you
may, through the gymnasium, work of
your spleen and your querilousness and
one half your physical and mental all
ments, do not turn your back upon such a
grand medicament.
Still further: | recommend you TO
large class of parlor games and recreations.
There is way Of making our homes a
hundred fold more attractive than it is
now. Those parents cannot expect TO
keep their children away from outside dis
sipatipns unless they make the domestic
circle brighter than anything they can find
outside of it. Do not, then, sit IN your
home surly and unsympathstic, ard with
halfcondemnatory look, because Of the
sportfulness Of your children. You were
young once yourself.
LET YOUR CHILDREN
be young Because your eyes are dim and
your ankles are stiff, DO not denounce
sportiulness in those upon whose eyes there
is the first lus,re, and in whose foot there
is the bounding JOY of robust health.
thank God that in our drawing rooms and
in our parlOrs there are innumerable games
and spor ts which have not the least taiut OF
iniquty. Light up all your homes with
innocent hilaritie5. DO not sit down with
the rheumatism, wondering hoS children
can % on 80. Rather thank God that their
hearts are 30 light, and their laughter is so
free, and that their cheeks are so ruddy,
and that their expectations are so radiant.
The night will come soon enough, and the
heartbreak, and the pang, and the desola-
tion-it will come soon enough for the
dear children. But when the storm actu.
ally clouds the sky, il will he time enough
for you to haul out your reef tackles
Garry, then, into your homes not only the
innocent sports and games which are the
inventions Of our own day, but the games
which come down with the sportfulness Of
oil the past ages = chess and charadcs and
tableaux and battledore and cslisthenics
and lawn-tennis, and all those smuse-
ments which the young people Of our land
know so we'll how to c0ntrive. Then there
will he the parlor socialities- groups Of
people assembled in your homes, with wit
and mimicry and jOvialty, filling the room
with Joy from the door TO the mantel, and
from the carpet 10 The ceiling. oh, il
there any exhilaratiOn like a score Of gen.
isl souls in one room, each one adding a
contribution of his own individual merri-
ment TO the aggregation Of general bilar-
ity?
POPULAR AMUSENEETs.